Category: Media

Where Is My Right to Information?

By Pema Wangchuk On the outset, let me make clear to all the readers that whatever I write in WAB is my own and I am neither a grammar guru having graduated from Oxford nor a Cambridge aficionado. I am just a simple and budding writer having recently graduated...

Come together over me(dia) …

when it comes to ownership, new mergers muddy the water 20 August, 2011 – The Media Act of 2006, which looks at licensing and ownership, is being revised to keep up with the changes in technology that is bringing about a convergence of different media platforms. Media professionals refer...

Where has it reached?

Most recommendations on the draft advertisement policy from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York is on the procedures that needs following while giving advertisements to the media. The recommendations, which have recently returned from the university talks about categorising government advertisements as public interest and...

Crime and the city

Last night, a Kuensel intern was attacked on the staircase of the building she was staying at Olakha. She was on her way home from office. The attackers, two of them, strangled her and tried to snatch the laptop she was carrying in her backpack. Fortunately, her taekwando skills...

UN, BHUTAN TIE UP IN ICT CAPABILITY PROJECT

The UN and Bhutan government has launched an ICT capacity development programme through an academy to boost the ICT skills of the government officials in Himalayan kingdom. The United Nations Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development (UN-APCICT/ESCAP), with the support of Bhutan’s Ministry...

Skype conference

On Saturday, Kantipur daily published a news article of Bhanu Jayanti celebration in one of the European countries. I was more curious as it mentioned a new approach was adopted for the celebration. I assumed it was not just a literary piece recitation. I was wrong. The function was...